We are looking for an APRN with a child psychiatry background.
· Direct Treatment Services.
- Provides treatment services consistent with those authorized by payers and agency clinical standards and guidelines.
- Provide direct clinical services to clients, which may include; psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic assessments, ongoing treatment as well as crisis planning and response.
- Maintain positive working relationships with community health organizations and outside medical services to ensure coordination of client care.
- Provide training and consultation to staff as indicated.
- Develop programs and psycho-educational interventions for clients across the agency on issues such as wellness, side effects, health, etc.
- Participates in case conferences/consultations, as required, and in team meetings and training as needed.
- Makes comprehensive bio-psycho-social assessments of client and develops focus of treatment.
- Provides comprehensive and clear case formulation.
- Makes clinically appropriate, focused, goal-oriented treatment plans and reviews as required by agency guidelines.
- Provides individual, group and/or family therapy as appropriate.
- Assesses level of care needs/changes and follows up with and/or makes referrals to appropriate type of treatment and length of treatment.
- Provides brief treatment for clients who do not have a major mental illness.
- For the client who has a serious and pervasive mental illness, provides acute treatment services when indicated and ongoing supportive, less intensive treatment to facilitate continuous stability.
- Makes risk assessments and follows through as clinically indicated in client crisis.
- Demonstrates competency in age-related or specialty issues and developmental needs for each population served.
· Indirect/Administrative Services/Tasks
- Makes collateral contacts with clients’ natural support network; with other team members in-house; with other professionals/providers/agencies and in-patient treatment settings.
- Collaborates with the team to arrange for admission to other levels of care or referrals to other services.
- Completes all client record keeping conforming with agency policy and procedures (form, content, timeliness).
- Completes all necessary information to support transactions with insurance and managed care companies (written and telephone) comprehensively and in a timely manner.
- Completes any other required administrative record keeping or tasks relevant to the functioning of the agency/department/staff role per policy and procedures, or as assigned by supervisor or Program Director.
- As plan manager co-ordinates client’s treatment with other providers in and outside the agency and completes all referrals as needed.
· Additional Duties and Responsibilities
- Provides clinical leadership role.
- Provides staff supervision when assigned.
- Provide clinical supervision and consultation to case management teams as assigned.
- Participation in agency/departmental committees as required.
- Takes responsibility for own professional growth and development within and outside of the agency. Participates in individual/group supervision, case conferences and any other training provided internally that is relevant to one’s role and work focus.
- Attends administrative, clinical and programmatic staff meetings.
- May perform other assignments and duties, as area needs required.